Beth, I hear you callin'

I really loved the artist we saw today, Beth.  I like her ideas and I feel like I can relate to her in some ways.  She mentioned that she has an instinct to immediately categorize people when she first meets them as a defense mechanism.  I find myself doing this quite a bit when I first meet someone.  I don't classify them as some type of animal like she does, but I do group them somehow.  Usually just by where they are from, which is so silly!  It reassures me that she waited four years to go to grad school.  I have been thinking about grad school lately, but it doesn't feel right when I think about going right away.  A few people have told me that if I want to go I should do it fairly quickly after I graduate, within a year or two, because if I wait then I will probably never go.  So I could go to grad school, and I can wait to do it if I so choose.  I find her work very fascinating.  I like how her figures are both extremely literal in the fact that it is a clear form of an animal (that cannot really be disputed),  and figurative because behind each figure is a complex meaning that I would never have been able to figure out without her telling us about the 4 Greek personality types and the organs which accompany each one.  I am looking forward to her lecture tomorrow!  I get off work at 5 so I will be a little late, but I will be there!  I thought it was funny how she just openly told us of her pathological fear that someday she'll have a lecture and no one will show up.  I have fears like that too.